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Bütent 2025: Is Critical Thinking Available to Everyone?

Pontus Böckman — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:13:39 +0000

Is Critical Thinking Really Available to Everyone? In socio-economically unstable situations, people’s ability to think critically and make rational and sustainable decisions is questionable. In a rapidly changing global environment, it is more important than ever to have strong social policies that balance inequality, create the prerequisites for the development of the foundations of critical … Continued

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Skeptics in the Pub Vilnius

Pontus Böckman — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:12:05 +0000

For society, community and self: Nordic skepticism Skeptics meetup #15 Date: 29 August 2025 What is the status of the skeptic’s movement in the Nordic countries and beyond? What successes and lessons can be learned and shared? With well over a decade’s experience of skeptical activism, Pontus Böckman will share his take-aways from the … Continued

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VoF på besök i Vilnius

Vetenskap och Folkbildning — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:51:59 +0000

Bütent Festivalis, Vilnius, 30 augusti 2025 Två nya videor (Two new videos) Litauens skeptiker organisation (Skeptikų draugija) i samarbete Nordiska Ministerrådets kontor i Vilnius bjöd in Vetenskap och Folkbildnings Pontus Böckman till ett samtal om Kritiskt tänkande under diskussionsfestivalen Bütent, 29-31 augusti. Paneldebatten filmades och finns nu att se på Youtube och på VoFTV, länk: … Continued

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One of Sweden’s biggest scientific bluffs

Lotten Kalenius — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:00:39 +0000

Thomas Erikson 2014. Creative Commons CA 3.0 How Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time Dan Katz, licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, explains why Thomas Erikson’s success with his book Surrounded by Idiots is one of the biggest pseudoscience scandals in recent history. Over the last few years, hundreds of … Continued

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